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...WEAK LIGHT OF DAWN ONE morning last week, hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered at the Jokhang temple in Lhasa to select a new Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibet. Traditional yak-butter lamps glowed as three ivory markers were placed inside a golden urn. Each marker was inscribed with the name of a Tibetan boy identified, during a six-year search, as a possible incarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989. The urn was turned several times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu...
Norbu looked frightened, as well he should. With the turn of a golden urn and a handshake, he became a central figure in what promises to be a long and bitter war between Tibet and a communist government determined to retain control of the troublesome province, right up to choosing its top religious leaders. For six years, China had insisted on its authority to select the Panchen Lama. But in May, following ancient Tibetan custom and practices, the Dalai Lama announced that he had chosen six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the new Panchen Lama. Officials in Beijing were...
Capitol Hill is the last best public place in America for smokers, a refuge where lighting up is countenanced as both a venerable tradition and an up-to-the-minute political statement about the evils of overregulation. The marble halls are decorated with sand-filled brass or ceramic urn ashtrays. Twin glass ashtrays on pedestals flank the entrance to the Senate. Smoking has always been allowed on the Senate side of the Capitol, and members have always smoked behind the railing on the House floor. But this session, smokers light up without shame in hallways and other public haunts. Smoke...
...Unfinished Song. Through March 12. Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. 426-6912. Four friends and/or past lovers of wanna-be musical-theater writer Michael, who has succumbed to cancer, comb the contents of his New York apartment and serenade his urn. The story concentrates on a pair of gay lovers who, because of the stubbornness of one and the cowardice of the other, never finished their song of love...
...Unfinished Song. Through March 5. CharlesPlayhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. 426-6912.Four friends and/or past lovers of wanna-bemusical-theater writer Michael--who has succumbedto cancer--comb the contents of his New Yorkapartment and serenade his urn. The storyconcentrates on a pair of gay lovers who, becauseof the stubbornness of one and the cowardice ofthe other, never finished their song of love...